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- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
When President Donald Trump announced last week he wanted Congress to “pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill,” that should have dropped the chances of a federal shutdown to near zero.
After all, shutdown threats tend to get driven by conservative hard-liners intent on cutting spending — and who better than Trump to pull them in line and keep the government open?
So it’s quite a testament to how dramatically Trump has shaken up Washington over the past six weeks that the likelihood of a shutdown hasn’t abated. In fact, according to my reporting, it might actually have increased.
This time, it’s Democrats who are itching for a fight — over the Department of Government Efficiency cuts that Trump has blessed and deputized mogul Elon Musk has gleefully carried out.
I thought the paddles were genius myself. What is it you would have done specifically at the presidents talk. no apples to oranges as the paddles were a thing for his speech and helped fight their willingness to throw folks out.
More people should have done what Green did. Make them censure the entire Democratic caucus.
I for one thought the paddles were clever. Im not sure if I can say they were more effective. If they could get themselves all thrown out without making to much of a ruckus. In other words make it were they are thrown out and most people would view it as unfairly. That would do a good job of spotlighting the totalitarian ways. Thing is it has a good chance of failure whereas the paddles will definitely work but to less effect. Believe it or not these are actually the things they weigh when doing things. If I was a male congressman though I would have worn pink somewhere although I may be unaware of some dresscode preventing them since women tend to get more leeway with things like that in formal precedings.